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D.B. Cooper: 40 years later - November 24th, 2011, marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary case
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Posted on 11/25/2011 2:35:32 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER
I would like to think that D. B. Cooper is alive and well
To: elkfersupper
The odds are against him being alive.
He’d be at least 80 by now and possibly 100 years, if he were alive.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:47:27 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:50:22 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: elkfersupper
Or maybe some elk had HIM fer supper.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:50:37 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(bloodwashed not whitewashed)
To: DogByte6RER
D.B. Cooper remains a fascinating case. Partly because of the audacity of the crime but mostly because he was never caught, making it appear as if he got away with it. We'll probably never know. I always suspected that 'D.B. Cooper' was killed in the jump and his body never found but of course, one could just as easily conclude that no body means that he escaped, albeit losing a good portion of the stolen money, which was found. Whatever the truth, if he actually survived, 'D.B. Cooper' would probably be dead of natural causes or a very old man now. We'll get more books and articles and tons more speculation and alleged 'revelations' about the guy but as far as I can see, like Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared in 1975 and Judge Crater, who disappeared back in in 1930, the actual fate of the man forever known as 'D.B. Cooper' will probably never be learned - and that's O.K. with me. We need a little mystery in life.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:53:40 PM PST
by
Jim Scott
(on the 'Cain Train')
To: DogByte6RER
D.B. Cooper remains a fascinating case. Partly because of the audacity of the crime but mostly because he was never caught, making it appear as if he got away with it. We'll probably never know. I always suspected that 'D.B. Cooper' was killed in the jump and his body never found but of course, one could just as easily conclude that no body means that he escaped, albeit losing a good portion of the stolen money, which was found. Whatever the truth, if he actually survived, 'D.B. Cooper' would probably be dead of natural causes or a very old man now. We'll get more books and articles and tons more speculation and alleged 'revelations' about the guy but as far as I can see, like Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared in 1975 and Judge Crater, who disappeared back in in 1930, the actual fate of the man forever known as 'D.B. Cooper' will probably never be learned - and that's O.K. with me. We need a little mystery in life.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:54:02 PM PST
by
Jim Scott
(on the 'Cain Train')
To: DogByte6RER
Fred Astaire hijacked a plane ?
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:55:36 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
To: HiTech RedNeck; elkfersupper
Or maybe some elk had HIM fer supper. What could we do? He wore out his welcome here in the Grove.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:55:45 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: DogByte6RER
I never realized how really ballsy Cooper was 'til I read the full description. Brown shoes with a black suit?!?!?! Wow...I'd never try something that crazy!!!
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:56:18 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Jim Scott
Bet 1000 dudes knew where Hoffa got dumped.
To: HiTech RedNeck
The elk be vegetarians. If they ate him for supper, he would have to be 2nd or 3rd generation worm food.
To: DogByte6RER
A sort-of normal guy who just twisted off one day.
Get ready for more of that.
To: Lazlo in PA
Some woman who thinks he was an uncle, that said something at a family dinner about their money worries being over assuming they could “go back and get” it, when she was eight. (Some of the money was found loose on a river bank by a boy in the area in 1980.) I’d assume the woman would have heard about it had the uncle actually succeed in retrieving the stash, so sounds like he did not. Sounds like it went in a river. Money paper is actually cloth and it might survive for decades in the water.
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posted on
11/25/2011 3:05:24 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(bloodwashed not whitewashed)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
11/25/2011 3:05:44 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
To: elkfersupper
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posted on
11/25/2011 3:05:57 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(bloodwashed not whitewashed)
To: DogByte6RER
Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, History Channel, had a good investigation on ole DB. Pretty much sure they found him. The guy was Northwest employee and former paratrooper. Survived & led a nice life after his jump.
Kenneth Christiansen.
To: elkfersupper
I would like to think that D. B. Cooper is alive and wellIn 2007, the FBI announced that one of the two parachutes obtained from the Seattle skydiving school was a dummy 'chute. A classroom 'chute that was nonfunctioning and had an inoperable ripcord. The FBI said that the dummy parachute was procured in haste and provided as one of the two as an 'accident' (heh, heh). Cooper cannibalized the working chute and probably used the shrounds to secure the money bag to his body.
If this is true, Cooper didn't survive the plunge from the airliner without a parachute.
It does make you wonder why the FBI looked for him, or his body, for so long without announcing that they were looking for splatter marks.
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posted on
11/25/2011 3:08:24 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
To: DogByte6RER
I'm D.B. Cooper!
To: Joe 6-pack
It’s worse than that. His actions spurned a manhunt. That’s gotta be worse than spurring one.
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posted on
11/25/2011 3:11:27 PM PST
by
Wage Slave
(Army Mom!)
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